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'Battening down the hatches': Here's how SoCal is bracing for Hurricane Hilary

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Millions of people are in the path of Hurricane Hilary — from Baja to Southern California, residents are preparing for severe weather.
Millions of people are in the path of Hurricane Hilary, from Baja to Southern California are preparing for severe weather.
Hilary was nearing landfall Saturday along Mexico’s Baja Peninsula bringing heavy rain, wind and rough seas.
Meanwhile, hundreds of miles north, SoCal was getting ready.
„We’re battening down the hatches,“ said Tanner Atkinson from Newport Beach.
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Communities near Los Angeles are filling sandbags, preparing for Hilary, which could bring epic rainfall rarely seen in Southern California.
„I mean it’s going to be a lot of rain, usually some flooding, landslides — things like that,“ Atkinson said.
Evacuation warnings have been issued for mountain communities in San Bernadino County.

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